Blackleg is a preventable, soilborne disease of both cattle and sheep. Caused by an anaerobic, soilborne bacterium, it’s almost always lethal. It will infect sheep of any age, but it mainly affects cattle from six months to two years old, usually the fast-growing, high-performance animals.Blackleg can kill within 12 hours of infection and usually does so within 48 hours. So, unfortunately, the…
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